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Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66695030

Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extreme-heat-event-london-cancelled-b3001379.html


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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Whatever to keep an ending culture alive amiright? Even if it means annexing a country to get cheap shrimp because anything changing would be to much effort.

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Prison officers’ union calls for immediate end to practice at HMYOI Wetherby over fears for child and animal welfare

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

Edit: one of our own made a YT video about it

https://lemmy.world/post/48433865/24369435

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For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over…

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Elections chief says bid by ex-teacher to challenge senator with same name was filed ‘to confuse or mislead’ voters

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